MACHEN SIE MEHR AUS IHREM WELLNESSURLAUB - Benjamin Zuber

MACHEN SIE MEHR AUS IHREM WELLNESSURLAUB


MAKE MORE OF YOUR WELLNESS VACATION is Thomas Weinberger‘s and Benjamin Zuber’s first cooperative show. The leitmotif of the exhibition is the concept of competition, which in recent years, according to the artists‘ observation, has developed from a useful organizing principle of systems such as sports, economy, or democracy to a social ideal whose apparent lack of alternatives generates both frightening and amusing phenomena.

For their works, the artists appropriate objects and materials from various social spheres which are primarily associated with the concept of competition, such as advertising, the financial markets or the media.

Their playful combination creates new references without imposing prefabricated statements or trains of thought on the viewer. Instead, they give him/her the opportunity to escape the apparent inevitability of entrenched principles.

In a transmedia approach, the artists combine photography, installation, and collage and create their own cosmos, which is shaped by the artists‘ subjec- tive and dialectical examination of the subject.

THE WINNER

Reproduction of an image of the sprinter Justin Gatlin from a daily newspaper (original photo: Dylan Martinez), poster changer — 260 x 160 x 80 cm

QUANTIFICATION SET

Fluorescent tubes, cables, microcomputer, a selecti- on of beautiful numbers

FAIT ACCOMPLI

second hand trophies, balloons, threaded rods, acrylic glass — 420 x 400 x 80 cm

AUGURIUM 1-3

Print on Lycra fabric, zippers — 280 x 150 cm each

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SOCIETY

Megafon, quote by Margaret Thatcher from voice samples of her voice — 60 x 30 x 30 cm